[Dovecot] Great time savings backing a mdbox versus Maildir
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Wed Feb 9 00:43:59 EET 2011
On 9.2.2011, at 0.28, Javier de Miguel Rodríguez wrote:
> Hello
>> Hmm. I guess if you were doing backups 24h/day, then you can't really say how much faster mdbox performs than maildir (outside backups)?
>>
>
> No, 24 hours is for a FULL backup in the weekend. An incremental backup is only 2-3 hours in the night every day.
>
> About performance... I can not give you real numbers of Maildir vs mdbox. In Maildir our indexes were stored in a ram disk, but we can not do that with mdbox (we can not recreate them if power is lost).
So with mdbox disk I/O usage increased compared to maildir+ramdisk indexes?
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